(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Heard anything of string theory lately? Well, there have been a few developments. Apparently it’s ...

I’ve loved dinosaurs since I was a kid, but it turns out a lot of what I thought I knew is wrong… or at the least outdated. So, in this video, I’m gonna show you th ...

Rich” and “full-bodied” are terms that people often use to describe the taste of wine. They are also the properties that ...

The 1700 Cascadia earthquake and tsunami was a massive natural disaster that reshaped the Pacific Northwest. Through tree ...

In its various forms, lead has been used in many everyday products for millennia. The Romans even added it to wine as a ...

After the fall of the al-Assad regime in Syria, large stockpiles of the illicit drug captagon have reportedly been uncovered. The stockpiles, found by Syrian rebels, are believed to be linked to al-A ...

It’s the time of year for workplace Christmas parties, and gatherings with family and friends. Maybe you’ll drink a lot in one go. Then you feel your heart beating fast or irregularly. Ma ...

Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited ...

This is a brief comment on the recent social media episode in which a young woman attracted a lot of attention by graduating with a thesis on olfactory suppression in English ...

A new class of magnetism called altermagnetism has been imaged for the first time in a new study. The findings could lead to ...

It’s the time of year for workplace Christmas parties, and gatherings with family and friends. Maybe you’ll drink a lot in one go. Then you feel your heart beating fast ...

About 230 million years ago, almost 80 million years before the first bird appeared, their distantly related cousins, the ...